girls:
5.4k births since 1922
#2285 (60th percentile)
overall:
5.4k births since 1922
#3721 (52nd percentile)
The name Joellen is the #3,721 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,387 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 51.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 51.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,285 (60.0% percentile) for all time with 5,387 births since 1922.
Joellen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (first recorded for girls in 1922). Birth data for Joellen is available in 97 out of the 102 years between 1922 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Joellen reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 20.8% percentile (ranked #606) with 80 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 87 births per million (ranked 19.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Joellen ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 5.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Joellen".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Joellen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.6% confident that Joellen is pronounced as joh-EH-luhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JOH-eh-luhn, at 20.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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